CBS analyst backs South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer’s automatic conference CFP bid demand
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South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer sparked a whole new controversy with his stern take on SEC contenders getting some “consideration”, aka more automatic conference bids in the College Football Playoff.
The comment received its fair share of criticism but CBS Sports’ Tom Forlenni is convinced that the idea is worth a thought and that something good could eventually come out of it.
“By setting guidelines for auto-bids by conference — fair or not — we at least have some semblance of an actual playoff,” Fornelli explains.
“Every single team enters the year knowing exactly what they need to accomplish to get into the field. It’s not up to a room of administrators who have far too many other responsibilities in their day-to-day lives to be trusted to pick the “best” 8-4 team.”
The SEC would benefit greatly from the hypothetical change — exactly what Beamer proposed originally.
“The other positive side effect is how it will impact regular-season scheduling. With automatic bids and less reliance on impressing a selection committee, the SEC will likely expand to a nine-game conference schedule like the Big Ten and Big 12 already play, per Yahoo.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the ACC follows suit. In the era of bloated conferences, more conference games are a good thing because they keep some semblance of consistency in who you play. Familiarity breeds contempt, and contempt leads to ratings, after all!”
Several SEC teams like Ole Miss, Alabama, and South Carolina did not like how their season ended in the CFP bubble. But no matter how strong of an argument that is, two of these three teams didn’t have even 10 wins.
Regardless, if the SEC truly wants to dominate the post-season talks, they need to win more games; mainly because the Big Ten has been winning the National Championship for the past two seasons. It’s as simple as that.
